Hi! Loved Snow Like Ashes & can't wait for book 2! I wanted to ask though, if you don't mind, how do you keep track of your worlds? I'm writing my first fantasy and the world building has me incredibly paranoid. What if I said an area looks one way the

Ahhhh world building!

Okay, so, I could talk about world building for like way too freaking long. I’d bore you to tears. Luckily, I did a YouTube video wherein I very very briefly went over the general outline of questions I go through every time I start a new book. You can watch that here.

As far as keeping it all straight: I know a lot of people use Scrivener buuuuuuut I’m still one of the holdouts who uses Word. So I keep LOTS of lists – excel spreadsheets, word docs, etc. So many lists. I have lists for character physical descriptions/names/histories/families/traits; world details/countries/cities/cultures; anything and everything. Because, yeah, it gets very intimidating keeping it all straight, and I’ve learned the hard way not to rely on memory. Don’t expect yourself to remember it all! There’s no harm at all in creating references, as many as you need.